User blog comment:Bluestripe the Wild/Rise of the Mercenaries/@comment-3474228-20110422231810/@comment-3148757-20110422232241

Merle smiles mysteriously. "You've got to remember prohibition. It was crazy then. That's actually how my parents met. Prohibition. My mother agreed to shelter my father so long as he wouldn't reveal her secret... Later they were both killed for hiding the alcohol. Can't really grieve as I never knew them."